This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …

The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The … present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …

received by workers with the same years of education who are more or less able (ability premiums, for short) cause a smaller …

Florida. Fixed effects estimates of the impact of participating in the GED education program show post-release quarterly … who participated in GED-related prison education programs but left prison without a GED show no systematic evidence of an …

, improvements in the education structure will add about two million persons to the US labor force and about half a million persons … educational scenarios that we evaluate, increasing the number of persons who achieve more than lower education has the strongest … scenarios. Shifting people from intermediate to higher education levels also increases labor force participation in higher age …

for regime shift in a dynamic economy-environment system. Following Holling (1973),we consider resilience as the maximal …